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Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.

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Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

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If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

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Some rules we try to uphold:

Be civil. Bigotry is not welcome. This includes (but is not limited to): transphobia, queerphobia, racism, ageism and ableism. We do not promote hate.
Communities need to be Retro or Retro-adjacent.
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What did you learn today? Share it with us!

We learn something new every day. This is a community dedicated to informing each other and helping to spread knowledge.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)

Rule 1- All posts must begin with TIL. Linking to a source of info is optional, but highly recommended as it helps to spark discussion.

** Posts must be about an actual fact that you have learned, but it doesn't matter if you learned it today. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.**

Rule 2- Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.

Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.

Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.

Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.

Rule 6- Regarding non-TIL posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.

Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.

Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.

Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.

Partnered Communities

You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.

Community Moderation

For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.

What did you learn today? Share it with us!

We learn something new every day. This is a community dedicated to informing each other and helping to spread knowledge.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)

Rule 1- All posts must begin with TIL. Linking to a source of info is optional, but highly recommended as it helps to spark discussion.

** Posts must be about an actual fact that you have learned, but it doesn't matter if you learned it today. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.**

Rule 2- Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.

Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.

Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.

Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.

Rule 6- Regarding non-TIL posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.

Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.

Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.

Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.

Partnered Communities

You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.

Community Moderation

For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

Open Registration with Application questionnaire.

If you have a question or comment you can post in !meta@retrofed.com or message @DosDude@retrofed.com or @Die4Ever@retrofed.com

In case of downtime and/or emergency, we will post updates on @DosDude@mastodon.social

Some rules we try to uphold:

Be civil. Bigotry is not welcome. This includes (but is not limited to): transphobia, queerphobia, racism, ageism and ableism. We do not promote hate.
Communities need to be Retro or Retro-adjacent.
Please don't upload pornographic content. (use an external image host for that)

	Replies	Author	Score	Last Post
TIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous. (www.smithsonianmag.com)	31	Quilotoa	187	Fri Apr 10, 2026 12:33 pm »
TIL that Heilongjiang,China has currently the lowest TFR of any large administrative subdivision in the world with 0.52 children per woman (en.wikipedia.org)	4	Helloooo	31	Sat Apr 4, 2026 1:37 am »
TIL that In many reptile species, females are larger than male species, which contrasts with the general mammalian trend where males are larger,This difference is primarily due to fecundity selection (en.wikipedia.org)	5	Helloooo	97	Fri Apr 3, 2026 1:55 pm »
TIL Dark Castle (1987) was one of the first computer games to use a WASD movement scheme (programming.dev)	32	I Cast Fist	220	Fri Apr 3, 2026 10:19 pm »
Mars elevation map (discuss.tchncs.de)	25	gandalf_der_12te	154	Tue May 19, 2026 9:46 pm »
TIL about the word "instar" and how it refers to the developmental stages of arthropods (en.wikipedia.org)	1	jaykrown	17	Wed Apr 1, 2026 12:41 pm »
TIL funeral bread is made of cinnamon bread, Cheese Whiz, and olives. (archive.is)	12	Quilotoa	29	Wed Apr 1, 2026 2:06 pm »
TIL chicken sold in supermarkets are often "plumped" with a salt water solution to increase sell weight, making up as much as 30% of the total weight, and can contain up to 500mg of sodium per serving (en.wikipedia.org) [ Goto page: 1, 2, 3 ]	138	James_Fortis	578	Thu Apr 2, 2026 8:20 pm »
TIL that if a new state is admitted to the United States, the new star on the flag is supposed to be added starting on the next 4th of July (www.govinfo.gov)	19	TheTechnician27	122	Sat Apr 4, 2026 5:01 pm »
TIL Lip Filler Acent (talking like you have had your lips filled) is a thing. (archive.is)	8	Quilotoa	29	Mon Mar 30, 2026 5:15 pm »
TIL when you collect poop samples from the ocean most of the data comes back as being from unknown species (www.youtube.com)	9	confuser	105	Mon Mar 30, 2026 2:42 am »
TIL pteridomania is the fad of collecting and displaying ferns. (en.wikipedia.org)	11	Quilotoa	103	Sun Mar 29, 2026 7:19 pm »
TIL about Elmer McCurdy: a train and bank robbing outlaw whose corpse, after his death, became a carnival funhouse attraction. (www.snopes.com)	0	FlashMobOfOne	47	Sat Mar 28, 2026 5:21 pm »
TIL: One of the longest ships ever built, the “Seawise Giant”, was so deep the English Channel/La Manche was too shallow for it to pass through. (en.wikipedia.org)	5	FundMECFS	86	Sun Mar 29, 2026 6:13 am »
TIL Valnet owns most of the world's so-called "gaming journalism" and other pop entertainment websites. (www.thewrap.com)	13	lechekaflan	183	Mon Mar 30, 2026 7:55 am »
Rubber duck debugging - Programmers often discover solutions while explaining a problem to someone else, even to people with no programming knowledge. (en.wikipedia.org) [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	73	RavenofDespair	565	Sun Jun 21, 2026 3:50 am »
The Battle of Sixth Grade: A Story of the Cuban Revolution (www.theguardian.com)	0	UnderpantsWeevil	17	Fri Mar 27, 2026 9:18 pm »
TIL that the song 'Enola Gay' by 'Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark' was an anti-war song about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (song.link)	3	Reef	72	Fri Mar 27, 2026 8:32 am »
TIL the US state of Missouri's governor signed a Mormon extermination order in 1838 which wasn't formally rescinded until 1976 (en.wikipedia.org)	39	TheTechnician27	186	Sun Mar 29, 2026 8:35 pm »
TIL that there's a Pearl Jam themed wrestler called Steven Flowe (www.wrestlezone.com)	6	Viking_Hippie	165	Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:59 am »
TIL the music used in the infamous "you wouldn't download a car" anti-piracy advert was pirated (www.abc.net.au)	21	RobotToaster	467	Thu Mar 26, 2026 1:53 pm »
TIL about the religion of SubGenius, which the Devo members are involved in	15	bridgeenjoyer	59	Wed Mar 25, 2026 11:05 pm »
TIL: Stretching probably doesn't reduce injury (link.springer.com) [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	54	Artisian	114	Thu Mar 26, 2026 11:56 pm »
TIL: There is now a SNL UK stand alone show (en.wikipedia.org)	10	𝜯𝐞𝐡 𝜝𝐚𝐦𝐬𝐤𝐢	68	Wed Mar 25, 2026 12:01 pm »
TIL Saint Lucia is the only country named after a woman. (en.wikipedia.org) [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	51	Quilotoa	195	Thu Mar 26, 2026 2:58 am »